Points of interest

Look up at the magical city skyline for a moment during your weekend trip in Ghent: you can’t miss it. The Belfry is the middle tower in the...

By the end of the 18th century, beguines only existed in the Low Countries. They had a relatively independent status. The last Ghent beguine died...

Beguines were single women who lived together as a Catholic community in a ‘beguinage’. The beguines took no religious vows but had to live by the...